In celebration of the end of the 2021 Baby Grand Jazz series, we’ve put together a list of books and movies on all things jazz. From novels to biographies, we’ve got a ton of information on what historian Gerald Early calls “(one of the most) beautiful things this culture ever created.”
Books
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 : a novel – Francine Prose
- The Chronicle of Jazz – Mervyn Cooke
- Jazz: a novel – Toni Morrison
- Coming Through Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje
- The Lola Quartet – Emily St. John Mandel
- Miles: The Autobiography – Miles Davis
- Marvin Gaye, My Brother – Frankie Gaye
- Lady Sings the Blues – Billie Holiday
- Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong – Terry Teachout
- Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong – Gary Giddins
- Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson – Wil Haygood
- Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan – Elaine Hayes
- The Fisher King – Paule Marshall
DVDs
- Young Man With a Horn
- The Great Gatsby
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Whiplash
- Lady Sings the Blues
- La La Land
- Ray
- Nina
- Miles Ahead
- Chicago
- A Tuba to Cuba
- Bird
- Cabin In The Sky
- Jazz on a Summer’s Day
- Mo’ Better Blues
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